{
 "report": "Agent Economy Report",
 "number": 1,
 "period": {
  "from": "2026-09-28",
  "to": "2026-10-03",
  "days": 6,
  "timezone": "UTC"
 },
 "published": "2026-10-04",
 "scope": "x402 payments on Base settled by any listed facilitator, including router settlements (Goldsky census, replayed from Sep 28, read Oct 4 16:26 UTC). Circle Gateway batch settlements, other chains and other payment protocols are not in this release.",
 "totals": {
  "payments": 406243,
  "gross_usd": 161794.45,
  "organic_usd": 43028.47,
  "organic_share": 0.2659,
  "self_usd": 25525.5,
  "fleet_usd": 1906.85,
  "transfer_usd": 91333.62
 },
 "days": [
  {
   "day": "2026-09-28",
   "payments": 71698,
   "gross_usd": 65608.854501,
   "self_usd": 4449.399027,
   "fleet_usd": 284.457025,
   "transfer_usd": 51808.85,
   "dust_usd": 4.3e-05,
   "organic_usd": 9066.148406,
   "wash_share": 0.861815,
   "fleets": 8,
   "transfer_payees": 6
  },
  {
   "day": "2026-09-29",
   "payments": 82549,
   "gross_usd": 13484.655319,
   "self_usd": 3975.698888,
   "fleet_usd": 501.958137,
   "transfer_usd": 713.0,
   "dust_usd": 4e-05,
   "organic_usd": 8293.998254,
   "wash_share": 0.384931,
   "fleets": 6,
   "transfer_payees": 3
  },
  {
   "day": "2026-09-30",
   "payments": 67880,
   "gross_usd": 48099.783488,
   "self_usd": 4440.210867,
   "fleet_usd": 367.49297,
   "transfer_usd": 35448.464565,
   "dust_usd": 4.5e-05,
   "organic_usd": 7843.615041,
   "wash_share": 0.83693,
   "fleets": 6,
   "transfer_payees": 10
  },
  {
   "day": "2026-10-01",
   "payments": 53068,
   "gross_usd": 16940.084554,
   "self_usd": 5006.613842,
   "fleet_usd": 146.20013,
   "transfer_usd": 740.0,
   "dust_usd": 4.2e-05,
   "organic_usd": 11047.27054,
   "wash_share": 0.347862,
   "fleets": 5,
   "transfer_payees": 3
  },
  {
   "day": "2026-10-02",
   "payments": 51313,
   "gross_usd": 9255.916033,
   "self_usd": 3956.244978,
   "fleet_usd": 200.540389,
   "transfer_usd": 1873.30759,
   "dust_usd": 4.1e-05,
   "organic_usd": 3225.823035,
   "wash_share": 0.651485,
   "fleets": 6,
   "transfer_payees": 5
  },
  {
   "day": "2026-10-03",
   "payments": 79735,
   "gross_usd": 8405.153343,
   "self_usd": 3697.332264,
   "fleet_usd": 406.20481,
   "transfer_usd": 750.0,
   "dust_usd": 4e-05,
   "organic_usd": 3551.616229,
   "wash_share": 0.577448,
   "fleets": 6,
   "transfer_payees": 3
  }
 ],
 "where_the_rest_went": [
  "One-off transfers: $91,334. A payee paid by exactly one wallet that day, $100 or more in total. Sep 28 is one $50,000 payment; Sep 30 is one wallet sending $10,000, $8,000, $7,500, $6,700, $1,500 and $1,000 to six wallets that received nothing else.",
  "Self-dealing: $25,525. About 98% of it every day is one ring of 16 to 23 wallets paying each other both ways in $20 to $50 payments, all settled through one router.",
  "Single-purpose fleets: $1,907. A payee paid by more than 50 wallets that paid nobody else, at prices within one cent."
 ],
 "rule": "Agent GDP rule 2026-10-04 (tickerz docs/Agent GDP Rule 2026-10-04.md): self-dealing, single-purpose fleets, one-payer transfers of $100 or more, and dust under $0.0001 are removed in that order; what remains is organic.",
 "prior_work": {
  "title": "How Agentic Is Agentic Commerce? A Population-Scale Measurement of x402 Adoption and Authenticity",
  "authors": "Ling, Zhou, Wu, Wang",
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12575",
  "date": "2026-07-14",
  "finding": "Over 280 days, 21.20% of x402 settlements on Base were fictitious and 63.78% internal to linked clusters."
 },
 "caveats": [
  "A wallet is not a person or an agent; nothing on the chain says who holds it.",
  "The census replay finished on Oct 4; Oct 2 and Oct 3 were read after it finished.",
  "This is a first print. Later reads may differ; any revision will be published beside this one, never over it."
 ],
 "next_release": "2026-10-11"
}